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can't
remember
what i
forgot
The good news
from the
front lines of
memory research
SUE
HALPERN
Like many of us who have had a relative
or friend succumb to memory loss, who
are getting older, who are hearing
statistics about our own chances of
falling victim to dementia, who worry
that each lapse of memory portends
disease, Sue Halpern wanted to find out
what the experts really knew, what the
bench scientists were working on, how
close science is to a cure, to
treatment, to accurate early diagnosis
and, of course, whether the crossword
puzzles and sudukos and ballroom dancing
we’ve been told to take up can really
keep us lucid, or if they’re just
something to do before the inevitable
overtakes us. In Can't Remember What
I Forgot, she shares what she
learned.
Reviews:
“Fascinating….[Halpern’s] accomplishment
is to have drawn out the myriad threads
of these stories, connecting them when
possible, to produce a panoramic
portrait of an intricate and largely
unknown world.”
—New
York Review of Books
“A vivid, often amusing introduction to
a science that touches us all.”
—Publishers
Weekly
“Engrossing….High-quality science
writing: an illuminating picture of
investigators at work and a lucid
explication of their findings.”
—Kirkus
About the Author:
In 1985, clutching a brand-new Oxford
doctorate,
sue halpern
went to work at Columbia
University’s College of Physicians and
Surgeons teaching case-based ethics and
social medicine. Nearly twenty years
later, the author of
Four Wings and a Prayer
(now an award-winning documentary
film )
and
the New York Times notable book,
Migrations to Solitude,
returned to Columbia in the company of a
brilliant young neurologist, Scott
Small, who guided her into the world of
cutting-edge neuroscience. Halpern, a
former Rhodes Scholar and Guggenheim
Fellow, is a scholar-in-residence at
Middlebury College and the director of
the non-profit
Face of Democracy
project which teaches documentary
journalism to high school students. In
addition to her three books of
non-fiction, she is the author of two
novels, The Book of Hard Things
and Introducing Sasha Abramowitz.
She lives in Vermont and the Adirondacks
with her husband
Bill McKibben and their
daughter Sophie, the editor of
Bookworm Magazine.
Visit Sue's
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